The charred fig from the Drumanagh excavation. This image was taken at a Historic England laboratory using an AHRC-funded Keyence VHX7000 3-D digital microscope at x 30 magnification.Credit: Historic England/University College Dublin
The charred fig from the Drumanagh excavation. This image was taken at a Historic England laboratory using an AHRC-funded Keyence VHX7000 3-D digital microscope at x 30 magnification.Credit: Historic England/University College Dublin
Doesn’t look like it’d make a good pudding - or newton.
Looks like it came from Aldi’s............................Pompeii Aldi’s..................
It figgers.
Besides figs, what have the Romans ever done for us?
“By these windswept cliffs people were consuming spelt bread, olive oil and figs, drinking from glass vessels and fine ceramic cups while wearing brooches and glass beads.”
~ Wednesday Addams as Pocahontas
I have a fig tree on my property. Fresh figs are NOTHING like the dried ones you buy or the ones in Fig Newtons. When they’re ripe the skin is extremely thin and soft and the fruit itself is very soft. In terms of consistency they’re more reminiscent of plums. For me at least they typically ripen at the start of September.
